Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-17
CONDENSED NEWS.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was 20 years old
Tuesday
The British Catholic union has adopted res
olutions congratulating the pope and Queen
Victoria upon their jubilee.
Eight hundred houses have been DESTROYED
by fire in the city of Botuschany, Roumania.
Seven persons persisted in the conaagration
Arch Gilmore has been convicted of the
murder of John Buffer, of Yorkville Ills,
and sent to the pehitentiary for twenty-five
years
John g. Nelson has been appointed receiver
of public moneys at Fergus Falls, Mimi, and
James Greely register of the land office at the
same place
-Four thousand of the striking cokeworkers
In Pennsylvania have returned to work at the
old wages, This practically ends the strike
which has lasted three months and embraced
about II, 900 men
Henry Probasco, one of the wealthiest and
most public-spirited citizen of Cincinnati,
was married in that city Thursday, the bride
being Miss Grace Sherlock, daughter of
Sherlock, also local notability
A mutiny participated in by 500 men in the
garrison at Herat has been suppressed
Thirty royal troops and fifty of the mutineers
we're killed Most of che latter were cap
tured, and their leader sent to Cabul
The queens jubilee was celebrated at Glas-
gov Thursday by a memorial religious serv-
ice, a review of 10000 troops, and number
of balls and banquets. Six thousand poor
| people were given dinner at the public ex-
pense.
The United States consul general at Berlin,
| in an official report upon the state of German
| trade and manufactures, saws the increase il
| exports is mainly due to the low wages pre-
vailing in that country, which permits the
underselling of foreign competitors.
| The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Rail
road company has been temporarily en- Joined
froma proposed issueof 81, 600 900 in certificates
OF Indebtedness The hearing on the motor
| TO make the injunction permanent is set fol
| June 23, before the United States court al
| PIttsburg.
] Al Sydney, New South Wales, Thursday &
meeting attended by 10000 people passed res
olutions expressing devotion to the queen
, The meeting was held to counterfeit the dis
| loyal manifestations at a previous meeting
called by the mayor to take action regarding
a Jubilee celebration.
A sensat on has been produced in Paris by
the kidnapping In the Bois de Boulougne o
the Countess Campos, the divorced wife Of
| the pu; de Ia Tore, son OF the late Marsha
Serrano, of Spain There is no clus to tbs
present whereabouts of the lady Her alb
ductor is believed to be a rejected sutton.
Willie Dickinson, years old, disappeared
from his home in Commonwealth, Wiscon
sin, November !, 1881 His parents mad,
every effort TO discover his whereabouts
travelling many thousands of miles upol
clews which proved to be false, and final,
gave him up for dead. Interest in his fat
has been revived by the discovery in a brus
heap at Milwaukee of letter signel "Jame.
Paine" in which the writer declares that b
kidnapped and murdered the child, anC
names certain corner In that city as tn
place where the body was buried The plac
mentioned has since been built upon, but
search for the remains will be made